These vocals need a far less electronic production. Now the music and therefore this song sounds too artificial. The vocals have classic qualities though. Send it to Van Dyke Parks. He knows how to make this kind of music epic. For me it's just kitsch now.

I hear some '80's solo Linda Thompson in there, along with all the octave jumping gimmicks that came after. So, kind of mixed feelings on this. Certainly not an original dish, but a edible rehash of recipes of others.

Happy makes me happy. She seems to me an undiscovered jewel. I like her use of bizarre textures and odd voice to filagree her well crafted pop songs. She is of the few artists whose catalog I have downloaded for offline listening. Likewise, I celebrate fellow Fizzites, Silje Karlsen and Amanda Heironimus.

This never appeared on a domestic album. It was a bonus track on the German pressing of Many Worlds Are Born Tonight.

How It Should Be

I don't understand
Any of the reasons
But I'm gonna be here
Picking up the pieces

There will never be
Any reciprocity
And I don't care

See, this is how it should be

This, knowing I'm the
Only one it pleases
But I'm gonna be here
Picking up the pieces

If there has to be a fall
I will take the shock
And I don't care

See, this is how it should be

Maybe I'll never know
When the black patch came
All I really know is
You're not quite the same
As me

There's a cloud undone
Waiting over your horizon
I'm not a god you know

All I can do is watch the show

I don't understand any of the reasons
but I'm gonna be here picking up the pieces
There will never be any reciprocity
And I don't care

See, this is how it should be

This knowing I'm the only one it pleases
But I'm gonna be here picking up the pieces

If there has to be a fall
I will take the shock
And I don't care

See, this is how it should be

If only I could only go back now
To the point of origin
Oh the hell of being linear

There's a big black cloud undone
Waiting over your horizon
I'm not a god you know...

All I can do is watch the show

I don't understand any of the reasons
But I'm gonna be here picking up the pieces
There will never be any reciprocity
And I don't care

See, this is how it should be

This knowing I'm the only one it pleases
But I'm gonna be here picking up the pieces.

If there has to be a fall
I will take the shock
And I don't care

(....more chorus)

Say, this is how it should be

Never understand

I will be there picking up the pieces

I'm the only one

Picking up the pieces

I don't understand any of the reasons
But I'm gonna be here picking up the pieces
There will never be any reciprocity